MIKE SCHMID has warned his Esher side that they will be relegated from the Championship unless they sort out their indiscipline.

Esher travel to Moseley on Saturday (March 24) rooted to the foot of the relegation play-off group after successive defeats by London Scottish and Plymouth.

But it was last Friday’s 18-11 reverse in Devon that angered Schmid as Esher gave away a series of needless penalties to hand Plymouth the initiative.

That leaves them four points adrift of Plymouth with four play-off games remaining and the spectre of National One rugby looming on the horizon.

Director of rugby Schmid fumed: “We talked all week about not giving away soft penalties in the middle third of the park but at Plymouth we had eight.

"Yet we’ve given only one try away in two games so we have to have more confidence in our defence than that to risk silly penalties.

“It’s an individual putting his needs in front of the team.

“It’s happened too much in the last two weeks, when the games are always going to be tight and we know Plymouth have a goal-kicker who kicks everything within 50.

"It’s not going to be a great video session for those boys that were taking penalties because it’s personal accountability.

“I can tell them, their teammates can tell them, but until they actually listen and do it properly it’s going to keep hurting us.

“It’s the silly controllable penalties we have got to lose. You are always going to get one or two calls you question but it’s the ones when the players are putting their needs in front of the team, not listening to the referee or not working hard enough to get off the floor.

“Those are the things we have to work harder on.”

But Schmid insisted his players still had the character to bounce back and find the form that saw them win their last three games of the regular season.

He said: “There were some fantastic points in the game. Now we are going away to Moseley, which is arguably the hardest place to go during the play-offs. It’s going to be very tough but we have to fight as hard as we possibly can.

“But Moseley started 0-2 in the play-offs last year then beat us back to back to virtually save their season so it’s very, very doable.”

Schmid also admitted Esher must sort out the lineout problems that also contributed to their defeat at Plymouth.

But his men, skippered by Dave Slemen, could be boosted by the return of lock James Inglis and scrum-half Jamie Mackenzie after injury for the trip to the Midlands.